25 favorite movies of 2013

Last year, I listed my ten favorites. I really couldn't contain the list to 10 this year. This isn't about finding the "best" movie. It's about my favorite movies. Movies that inspire me. Movies that reveal something new every time I watch them. Movies I get lost in. This is not scientific.

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Place Beyond the Pines

Gravity

All is Lost

Upstream Color

Man of Steel

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

Zero Dark Thirty*

Captain Phillips

Stories We Tell

Prisoners

Fruitvale Station

This is the End

Pacific Rim

What Maisie Knew

Mud

Iron Man 3

To the Wonder

We Are What We Are

Oxyana

Side Effects

Spring Breakers

Fast & Furious 6

The Great Gatsby

Films I didn't get to see, but can't wait to watch: Her, Nebraska, Inside Llewyn Davis, Short Term 12, Dallas Buyers Club, At Berkeley